1/25 第24回APU東南アジア研究フォーラム

第24回ＡＰＵ東南アジア研究フォーラム

スピーカー：アンソニー・リード氏（オーストラリア国立大学名誉教授、京都大学東南アジア研究所客員研究員）

話題：「帝国の錬金術：ナショナリズムとアジア」

日時： 1月25日（月曜日）　5限　午後4時05分～5時40分

場所： 立命館アジア太平洋大学、Ｂ棟4階、SPR4

The 24th APU Souteast Asia Studies Forum

Speaker: Dr. Anthony Reid (Emeritus Professor, Australian National University; Visiting Scholar, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)

Theme: 'Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Asia'

Date: 5th period (16:05-17:40), January 25th (Monday)
Venue: SPR4, 4th Floor of Building B, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Abstract:

The mid-twentieth Century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history.  The relatively brief Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia and much of China, and its sudden ending with the atomic bombs of August 1945, telescoped what might have been a long-term transition into a dramatic and violent revolution.  In essence, imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, the sole legitimate model of twentieth century politics.

The growing literature on nationalism would suggest that the winners from the collapse of empires should have been ethnically homogeneous nation-states. Yet each major Asian state looks like an anomaly, failing to undergo the kind of culturally homogeneous national assertiveness that broke up empires in Europe under the new pressures of industrialisation and print capitalism.  Imperial borders were sanctified by China, India, Indonesia, Burma and the Philippines, though each experienced modernity under radically different conditions. 

How do we explain this curious alchemy generated by nationalism in Asia?  In a book just finished I have used Indonesia and Malaysia as models for two kinds of alchemy in Southeast Asia, revolutionary/unitarian and evolutionary/federal.  This talk will discuss a typology which may help us understand Asian nationalism more generally.